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Nuclear Nuisances

Updated May 28, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

Russia was being disingenuous yesterday when it blamed the worsening conflict in Kashmir on the bad example of NATO's use of "force and terrorist methods" in Yugoslavia. If anything the reverse would be true, because India and Pakistan have gone to war twice over Kashmir since 1947, and in recent years both have applied force and terrorist methods in their struggle over the divided state.

But Moscow had a better point when it criticized both countries for the latest, alarming outbreak of hostilities. That was an unusually...